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Summary: The Ostrich Strategy
Review: The name of the publisher of this book "Competetive Enterprise Institute" tells you pretty much all you need to know about the agenda behind this book. It's nothing more than a collection of weak attempts by corporate sponsored researchers to discredit environmental issues that the energy, logging, and agricultural industries feel threatened by. The theme of this book can be summarized as: "Don't pay any attention to the environment. Trust Corporate America and everything will be OK." For those who already agree with the radical anti-environmental agenda of this group, this book will reinforce their views. For everyone else, it's a waste of time.
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Summary: my opinion
Review: There are some things more important than profit motives for individuals and corporations. Sometimes, it is best to act in the interest of the world and forget about making the most out of every buck... However, this is also not true. One can, and often also does make as much or more money working in environmentally sensitive and corteous ways, as those that terrorize and plague the environment... using its riches as their spoils. The environmentalists are not on a quest to restrict business from making money. They just feel that the Earth should come before anything else. I totally agree. Those that do not agree are in denial. This should not be a news flash for anybody. The earth can be and is being destroyed at an alarming rate. We are the main culprits. Humans are the responsible benefactors for almost every of the major phlights to malignantly affect our planets. You don't see the fish dumping radioactive wastes in the oceans. You don't see gorillas running chainsaws through and bulldozers plowing down forests. You don't see the giraffes driving automobiles or operating heavily polluting powerplants or factories. We are almost solely responsible, and all our actions do have consequences. The CO2 does go somewhere. Read any science book and it will tell you just that. Almost all the scientific data available (along with rather recent noticible changes in climatic conditions and weather fronts) are more than lightly reinforcing the truth that global warming. Deforestation and mass extinction, over fishing, pollution, and pretty much any other environmental problem is also made much worse and more gravely serious by our hands. This book is a joke and should not be taken as more than that.
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Summary: Great Retort
Review: This book provides information and facts that fill in gaping holes in the Carbon Dioxide = Global Warming arguments. It truly debunks the notion that the KYOTO TREATY would be good for the world, and in fact provides irrefutable evidence to the contrary.
This is a must read to those who wish to read both sides of the argument. CHEERS!
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Summary: Someone needs a fact checker
Review: You don't have to go much further than the jacket of this "myth" busting manifesto to know that the authors must have had other agendas when they wrote it. The first mind boggling bullet point states that,
"Myth: Solar- and wind-powered generators are a renewable, efficient, and less intrusive alternative to gas-, oil-, and coal-burning generators.
Fact: Global fossil fuel supplies are in no near-term danger of being depleted, and a single 555-megawatt natural gas power plant produces more electricity than 13,000 windmills"
That actual fact is that commercial wind turbines today produce between 1.5 and 3 megawatts each. You don't need 13,000 windmills, you only need around 300. It's rather easy to go to GE's Wind Energy website and find this out. One is forced to conclude that If the authors can't get their first fact anywhere close to reality, why would you trust the contents inside?
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